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Former Pride Middleweight Champion (205lbs) Wanderlei “The Axe Murderer” Silva faces former UFC Middleweight Champion (185lbs) Rich Franklin @ UFC 99: The Comeback from the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany. This fight will be fought at a catchweight of 195lbs as Silva will be moving to the 185lb division and Franklin will be moving up to the 205lb division after this fight.
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23 Comments
June 14th, 2009 at 8:06 am
Great fight ( push ups )
June 14th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Wand Win! :/ wtf!!!!
June 14th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Wand got robbed bigtime! Look at that 3rd round..he easily won the 2nd. Highway robbery!
June 14th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
franklin was running away for 3 rounds looked like machida out there, fight should of went to wand
June 14th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Wand was robbed, a blind man can see that.
June 14th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
unanimous decision? OMG!
June 15th, 2009 at 6:05 am
Damn, first of all at most it was a draw, no doubt about it, Franklin shouldnt ´ve the unanimous decision. The fight was thight.
2.- I see that Wand isnt at his best shape any more, im a great fan but i dont know if it was the weight lost or what but this guy looked so exausted at the end of 2nd round not to mention the 3rd. i really can say his not the same than even a year from now. in that shape he wont be a match for anderson silva.
3.-really it looked like a sparring sesion. I dont know if dana told this guys to give a good show but not hurt each other but i didnt see wanderlei with his furius determination not even with his killin stear as usual when he fights. Personally i think i hop more from this figth it was a little dissapointing.
June 15th, 2009 at 6:53 am
I say split decision to Franklin
Round 1 – Franklin no doubt
Round 2 – Franklin cuz he dropped Silva 2 times, even though Silva landed a big right that wobbled Franklin, Franklin never went down.
Round 3 – Silva, even though Franklin got the takedown, he didn’t do any damage there.
Wand will always be one of the greatest of all time, and this fight just shows that Franklin belongs on the top shelf of MMA fighters all time as well.
June 15th, 2009 at 11:05 am
I have to agree with Hoichi on this. It was a very close fight, but I think Franklin did enough to win it. I can’t give it Wanderlei based on a few hard punches that he landed. Franklin controlled almost the whole fight and was picking Wanderlei apart for most of it.
June 16th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
thats bull man wand should have won because he got the second and then he should have on the third because he was giving him some good punches
June 16th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Man! Great Fight! Round 1 was Rich do to Wand having more damage. Round 2 is a tie do to both getting knockdowns and round 3 is a tie do to both giving all and neither one getting dominated. Rich wins this one due to round 1. IMO
June 17th, 2009 at 12:22 am
No doubt Wand is one of the greatest ever, but he’s not the same. Hasn’t been since Hendo dropped him. He’s looked tentative in every fight since he’s been back in the UFC except maybe for the Jardine fight. I guess the brightest stars burn twice as fast.
This one looked closer than it really was. Franklin was more active, more accurate, and in control for longer periods in both 1 and 2. Wand was far more active in 3 but was so gassed he couldn’t be effective. Wandy can have 3 based on aggression, but you can’t give him 2 based on a few seconds of flurries where he landed a few square shots with no major effect. It’s not enough.
And there’s a huge difference between “evading” and “running”. Franklin wasn’t running. He was engaged the whole time.
I hope Wand can get comfy at 185 and make some more noise before it’s over, but based on how he’s looked recently, looks like it’s downhill from here.
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:42 pm
para mi franklin no es pelea para silva . aunq no se q le paso a wand se vio cansado … ya no es igual q antes .. igual seguire siendo 100 % apoyando a silva ….
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:45 pm
sus mejores momentos fueron en la pride ya q en el ufc son muchas reglas .. les aseguro q si hubiera peleado en la pride com franklin le hubiera ganado silva por k.o…
July 2nd, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Thanks for posting this. I thought Franklin won this hands down. I am wondering what is left for Wanderlei???
July 5th, 2009 at 11:13 am
to who ever thought wand won your obviously aren’t martial artiest your selves and don’t know much about mma just like watching to men slug it out in a cage rich controlled the entire fight with great foot work always attacking always putting pressure on wand now in the second round since that’s the most debatable one wand did rock rich with a good flurry but that was it you don’t win the round of one good flurry rich pick him apart knock him down 3 times in that rich never went down and wasn’t really touched besides the two shots that rocked him and the 3rd round wasn’t even close wand was tired never got any thing off rich fought the perfect fight against a heavy handed brawler pot shot move and counter based off aggression and octagon control and out striking his buy a lot and damage because if you look at both fighter rich doesn’t even look like he was in a fight he could have went 3 more could wand????
July 12th, 2009 at 10:52 am
man close fight edge to franklin…but the younger wand would have destroyed franklin
July 22nd, 2009 at 10:57 am
Wandy got robbed, he won this fight, franklin was running all the fight, If We want to see the old wandy frome Pride he most to improve as he did there, where is hes ground game??, he´s a bb in jiu jitsu, where are those knees??, and those hi kicks??, Please wandy you must to sit down and go back to make all the game, not just punches, I hope i can see the old wandy again trhue the belt, at 205 or 185…WAR WANDY!!!
July 27th, 2009 at 12:15 am
Unanimous decision does not mean you have to win every round. Too many people think that. It just means that all of the judges saw it the same way. It can be a close fight and still have a unanimous decision victory for a guy. You also cannot score a round 10-10. I see so many people saying thats a 10-10 round. The point of a 10 point must scoring system is so that someone wins every round as long as there are no penalties.
August 11th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Wandy did win this fight, 29-28. 2 of the judges f*cked it up 30-27 for franklin. Obviously they wanted to make up for the blown decision against Hendo which I believe frnaklin did win. Y didnt they announce the scores of the fight? B-cuz at least 2 judges scored the bout 29-28 for Wandy, and then the rig came in. Wandy got robbed and jobbed for sure!!
August 11th, 2009 at 10:00 am
kyle, 10:10 rounds are certainly possible. look up the rules
August 25th, 2009 at 4:00 am
franklin clearly won round 1 as e had much more accurate bstrikin and stayed out of trouble so thats 10 9 rich round 2 rich won de first 4 mins of it wandy just won de last min and a bit so der again 10 9 rich den de 3rd one was a draw and even if yi do score it to wandy rich still one de first 2 so its a win for rich and as mma genus sed if yi cant c dat ur obviously not a real mma fan just want ti c two fellas standin der swingin which is not wat its all about
October 3rd, 2009 at 12:05 pm
rich franklin won the fight